'Imagined Communities' examines the creation and function of the 'imagined communities' of nationality and the way these communities were in part created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism and printing and the birth of vernacular languages in early modern Europe
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-233) and index
Introduction -- Cultural roots -- The origins of National consciousness -- Creole pioneers -- Old languages, new models -- Official nationalism and imperialism -- The last wave -- Patriotism and racism -- The angel of history -- Census, map, museum -- Memory and forgetting -- Travel and traffic : on the geo-biography of Imagined communities